Sri Lanka extends draconian Emergency Regulatins
Protesters who are backed by the opposition party JVP (People’s Liberation Front) demonstrate against the presidency during a protest march in Colombo October 27, 2009. Reuters, via Daylife.com.
The Emergency Regulations has been extended by another 30 days by parliament, yesterday. It’s been over six months since the end of the hostilities between Government forces and the LTTE, by means of total annihilation of the LTTE. But the state of emergency, which allows the State to search arbitrarily, or detain for 30 days. goes on. This reminds me of a post I wrote on a few remarks made by the former Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palitha Kohona.
The fact of the matter is, that the Emergency Regulations have given the state an open trump card to use whenever needed, to supress those who oppose. White van abductions which a few hours later turn out to be arrests, can be covered in the sweet tasting syrup of National Security, using the ERs as a sheild.
The bigger question however, is when the demilitarization of Sri Lanka will start, and when will people go back to a state of life where uniforms, check points, arrests are not abundant. A state of life where the war is a thing of the past, and dark relics and reminders of the grim days past are scarce.
The latter part does not seem to be changing either. Whilst many checkpoints have closed down, those in the Capital city still remain, and the extremely heavy armed military presence continues on. The Rajapaksa Government should realise that winning the war is not enough. One needs to address the harder, and more difficult role of healing the wounds that the 30 years of fighting caused to the nation. And healing the scars of oppression and discrimination against Tamils that ran for decades more. The start, would be by letting out the hundreds of thousands of people that are still detained in the internment camps.
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what you forget to mention in your spin- jvp who you post protesting did not oppose the emergency.
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anyway if you were not advocating appeasement with terrorist murderers and opposing the defeat of criminal gang with violence, when ltte was in existence, you would have some credibility in whatever you are advocating now . (btw you are still parroting silly white van conspiracy theories dreamed up by terrorist propaganda. )
why did you adapt those anti freedom, anti democratic, anti human rights, and anti justice, positions when ltte was in existence?
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btw why do sl government intentionally want to prolong holding ppl in “internment camps ” as you imply in the post ?
you are not accepting the explanation provided by government? ok. it is good to be skeptic .
but then give me another explanation. are you saying gvt has some sinister motive ? do explain your latest conspiracy theory ? don’t forget to link to the source where you got that too.
do explain
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btw when are you going to explain/correct the blatant lie including the completely false “qoute” you told about me in your old deleted blog ? i am waiting .
what a liar !
you call yourself a journalist ?
sittingnut - November 7, 2009 at 6:21 am
The picture has a caption. Read it.
And I do advocate appeasement. I don’t see why you don’t get it. Let me spell it out for you. A-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t.
On your third point, I’m saying Government should let them go. Expedite the process. Get people out of the camps and help them to start real life.
Isn’t part of being a libertarian, advocating minimal Government intervention? How does stuff like ER fall into your twisted philosophy?
The End - November 7, 2009 at 6:31 am
Look what the cat dragged in. Our old fried Stingingnuts.
Pakaya - November 7, 2009 at 6:38 am